so dose anybody know what johnny uses for the beging of lit2 the strange atmosephare effet is it a volume pedel or something elese?

 

any body know what notes hes playing?

Don't know about the awesome effect, but he tremolo picks this:

 

e--17---19----17

b---x-----x-----x-

g--14---16-----14

 

Listen to the song for timing, but he just slides up and down from A to B.

 

And at the end of each verse you hear this little part:

 

b-------14s9-10---

 

When the bass comes in he goes down an octave and just strums normally.

 

:edit: During the chorus its almost the same as intro. A and B again.

 

e------------------------

b----10---12---10-----

g-----x-----x-----x-----

d-----7-----9----7-----

Don't know about the awesome effect, but he tremolo picks this:

 

e--17---19----17

b---x-----x-----x-

g--14---16-----14

 

Listen to the song for timing, but he just slides up and down from A to B.

 

And at the end of each verse you hear this little part:

 

b-------14s9-10---

 

When the bass comes in he goes down an octave and just strums normally. He plays basically the same thing until the chorus, during which he trem-picks something like:

 

e-------------------------------

b----10---12---14---12---10

g-----x-----x-----x----x-----x

d-----7-----9---11----9-----7

 

 

 

whats a tremolo pick??

tremolo picking is basically when u rapidly pick a sting (or 2 in this case), up down up down really fast. Probably not a great explanation but yeah

is this like an arpeggio?

No. Here, see what Jonny's doing at 0:58?

 

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Te91AUBf2-A]YouTube - [HD] Coldplay - Life In Technicolor at Sound Relief, Sydney 2009[/ame]

 

Its just strumming really fast, and catching the strings on the downstroke and upstroke in one quick motion.

pedal

 

so what pedals dose he use? volume pedal? with slight overdrive?

The way it fades in, almost definitely a volume pedal. But I don't know enough about pedals to say anything more.

I know what is going on here, so I will try to explain it. I am a keyboard player in a band. Most high end synths/workstations have a "release" feature. Basically the higher you turn the release the longer it will be for the note to die out. So whats basically happening is the first note starts...he moves to the next and the previous continues because it hasn't "released" yet. Do that multiple times you get a bunch of layered notes that give that majestic droning sound. I do this live sometimes. At the end of the song I will turn the release all the way up. It will sustain a droning sound for literally 2-3 minutes if you want, and is also very easily cut. I'm sure Jonny's guitar tech controls this. And yes, you are correct the begining is started with a fade in from a volume pedal, but that has very little to do with producing that sound.

 

Now I do not know the specific effect that is used for this on a guitar, but I would bet good money that it is embedded in one of his extremely expensive delay rack units. Good stuff.

i think you are talking about a simple "Hold Delay"

you kick the pedal, you play, kick it again and it's repeated until you kick it another time

 

so the recipe would be kind of:

LOADS AND LOADS OF REVERB (as much as you got)

+

little chorus/phase

+

slight distortion

+

hold delay

+

volume swell (/pedal)

 

i'll give it a try

 

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edit:

'ts shit! well, i haven't tried a lot, but i guess a hold delay won't do it

e|-12-----------------

b|-10-----------------

g|-9------------------

 

I know this is one of the chords Jonny tremolo picks. Can comebody work with this to figure out the rest?

Okay since theres no replies I will work out the rest of the chords. Whatever that is that's posted above is wrong. If you just look at Jonny's fingers, you can tell he isn't playing that.

I gave octaves, you just filled in the middle fifth. The end isn't on the high frets like I posted, but I think the melody is pretty accurate.

According to your tab, Jonny doesn't even use the high e string. I'm pretty sure he does.

Went back and looked at the video. I'm sorry, I'm seeing something completely different now. He plays the high you showed during the E chord, right before the verse comes in underneath those three guitar notes. During the intro I'm actually seeing seeing the F#m minor and D chords played open, but an octave higher.

--F#m-----D-----A--------------E

e-14------14----x-or 14 -----12

b-14------15----14------------10

g-14------14----14-------------9

 

The rest I haven't gotten to yet, but is probably along similar lines.

We should work on this together. Check out my tab I posted and see what you think.

 

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